How do I have to configure gitweb and gitolite so they'll work together?

Question

I am trying to make gitweb work with gitolite... but unsuccessful so far.
I am working on a RedHat Linux machine. A user called git exists.

gitolite

Answer 1

You need to add the Gitolite contrib/gitweb.conf at the end of /etc/gitweb_config.perl.
In other words, you need to call a Gitolite function from your gitweb.conf perl file, otherwise the integration GitWeb-Gitolite will never work.

# check for (at least) "R" permission
    my ($perm, $creator) = &repo_rights($repo);
    return ($perm =~ /R/);

(here repo_rights is a method from gitolite.pm)

Check the section "helping with gitweb".

The last lines you need to add at then end of gitweb_config.perl are:

use lib (".");
require "gitweb.conf.pl";

That way, you will avoid any "500 - Internal Server Error syntax error at /etc/gitweb.conf" error message.

If you don't have a gitweb_config.perl in which you declare gitweb.conf.pl, but directly "gitweb.conf.pl", then add "use lib (".");" as the first line of that file.